{"id":8490,"date":"2013-08-17T04:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/police-arrest-2-quack-doctors\/"},"modified":"2013-08-17T04:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T04:44:45","slug":"police-arrest-2-quack-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/police-arrest-2-quack-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 2 quack doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ayodeji Dedeigbo & Ekene Obidike<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two suspected quack medical doctors were on Friday paraded by the Lagos State Police Command at its headquarters in Ikeja, southwest Nigeria.<\/p>\n

They were arrested for operating an unlicensed hospital at Omotoba Street, Unity Estate, Iba, Lagos.<\/p>\n

The suspects, 39-year-old Gabriel Onyema Ihejiero, and Nwankwo Stephen, employed as doctor by Ihejiero, were arrested at a hospital named \u2018Care Hospital\u2019 located at 1B Omotoba Street, Unity Estate, Iba-Lagos. <\/p>\n

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The quack doctor, Nwankwo Stephen: had delivered over 90 pregnancies<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the police, on 26 July, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Damian Okoro, who is the Area \u2018E\u2019 Commander, Festac Town, received a distress call that some fake doctors were operating in Iba area and they were arrested.<\/p>\n

In his confessional statement, Stephen said: \u201cThe MD (Ihejiero) is my friend. He came to me for an advice, then I suggested to him that we should start a hospital business and he agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only worked for two years in his hospital before I stopped. I was trained as an auxiliary nurse in Ondo State for two years.”<\/p>\n

The police said their investigation revealed that the two suspects never attended any medical or nursing school and they have conducted over 80 deliveries for pregnant women in the hospital.<\/p>\n

While corroborating the Police report that they have carried out series of surgical operations, Stephen said: \u201cI have delivered over 90 pregnant women and they were all successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his own confession, Ihejiero, who claimed to be selling bond paper in Ghana before he began the hospital business, said: \u201cI own the hospital located at Iba. Though I am not a medical doctor, I employed a doctor with two years medical experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide, while speaking at the parade, advised the public not to patronise unlicensed hospitals and quack doctors.<\/p>\n

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